Explanations

Explanation writing from Westmere School

How to Write Excellent Explanations by sharpjacq

Poetic Devices

Simile: A comparison of two things normally quite different, using 'like' or 'as'.

Personification: An inanimate object or something abstract is given a human quality.
Metaphor: One kind of object or idea is given the qualities of another.
Alliteration: Words beginning with the same consonant sound.
Onomatopoeia: A word that imitates a sound.

Week Five

LI: to be able to use descriptive vocabulary to create a sensory poem which paints a picture in the readers mind


Give out Apples and
Use all your senses
Look –
Smell - ?
Feel –
Then bite into it
Hear –
Taste -
Brainstorm ideas on the iPads in groups
Cut up a piece of apple for each student (tell students the day before if they want to bring in a piece of their favourite fruit for this exercise they may).

Once ideas are down on the iPad head to the ICT room
First discuss sensory

Read model:
Discuss poetic features what did they notice
Alliteration & simile

Brainstorm adjectives for apples (focusing on how it looks, feels, sounds, tastes)
Get students to look, feel, hear, and taste their fruit

Bring up structure on powerpoint model how to follow the structure.

Discuss success criteria

LI: We are learning to be able to identify a metaphor and use it in our writing.

This week we are looking at another poetic device - metaphors

A metaphor is when we compare two objects, where one kind of object or idea is given the qualities of another.
Examples
A sea of sadness; Love is a battlefield, the trees applauded.

The Sun

The sun is an orange dinghy
sailing across a calm sea

It is a gold coin
dropped down a drain in heaven

It is a yellow beach ball
o the summer sky
kicked high into the summer sky

It is a red thumb-print
on a sheet of blue paper